Unanimously, the Supreme Court of the Christian Democrats ruled on the expulsion of Fuad Chahina historic militant who became president of the party, in addition to David Moralesformer national secretary, and Rogelio Zunigaformer general manager.
The 9 members of the Tribunal – made up of President Julia Panez, Marcela Carrasco, Constanza Tobar, Luis Thayer, Héctor Ruiz, Matías Valdés, Octavio Arellano, Óscar Osorio and Sebastián Llantén – decided to expel them and eliminate them “from all party records”, as indicates the ruling dated January 30, 2023, to which he had access The counter. With this, in the event that any of those sanctioned want to return to the game, this background will make it practically impossible.
The reasons can be summarized in two: one, the existence of unpaid funds corresponding to the years 2019, 2020 and 2021 in the name of Davir Morales and Rogelio Zúñiga, which they consider a breach of a “serious nature” for not complying with the obligation to “to render or restitute the requested funds, both because of their excessive length in time and because of the high proportion that the funds in question represented with respect to general spending.”
The second point -in which Chahin is pointed out- refers to the price in the sale of properties located in the communes of La Florida, Macul and Talagante, which were set at a lower price than their corresponding market price. Specifically, the one from Talagante was set at a price of 28,830 UF while its appraisal was 41,806 UF. That is, the DC lost 12,976 UF. The same happened with the other properties.
“It is necessary to point out that the defendants Chahin, Zúñiga and Morales are related in terms of real estate transactions, because the former is the only legal representative of the party capable of signing the legal acts that are analyzed on the real estate and that were actually signed by him-, while David Morales Nordetti, as minister of faith of the party, has been aware of the agreements of the National Board and National Council that he integrated in his capacity as National Secretary; in circumstances that Rogelio Zúñiga Escudero, in In his capacity as Administrator and head of the accounting and legal staff, he has had to supervise them in the steps prior to the conclusion of the aforementioned contracts and in the registration and justification of the accounting income and expenses that have been recorded in accordance with the manual of procedures of the administration,” the ruling says.
For this reason, Morales and Zúñiga were accused of lack of surrender -in time and form- of the funds. And due to their charges, they also violated the duty of the militant contemplated in the party Statute, “because they acted against the statutes and internal regulations, without attending to the instructions that were given to render or reincorporate the pending funds.”
As for the real estate, the three are also accused by regulations of the statutes. The important thing is that, as the resolution points out, in both cases, the three expelled iThey committed acts that threatened the permanent interests of the DC and the “moral prestige of the community.”
It should be noted that at the time of the resolution of the TS, some of the sanctioned names, such as Chahin, were no longer militants of the community. For this reason, the statutes of the DC state that when the Supreme Court initiates an investigation, those investigated are considered militants until the end of the process, in order to duly punish them.
Read the full ruling at the following link.
Chahin’s releases
Knowing the resolution of the DC, Fuad Chahin spoke with The counteraffirming that the ruling “the truth is that I don’t care because it was totally expected here from the beginning the objective was defined, which was revenge and trying to muddy up.”
In his opinion, the ruling makes “so brutal” errors because “they did not take responsibility for the resolution of any of our legal arguments, which were tremendously solid and incontestable, saying that we had not attached documents to prove it. A first-year student a year of law knows that the law cannot be proven. It is the facts that are proven and no point of proof was set either. Facts to prove were never set, nor was there even a probative term, that is, a procedural opportunity to be able to to give evidence and what it was that had to be given evidence”.
“This act of the Supreme Court was so vulnerable to due process. Therefore, it was to be expected. I don’t care because it is precisely those abuses, where the Supreme Court acts with true prevarication, among other things, that led me to renounce the Christian Democracy exactly two months ago,” he closed.
Chahin’s militancy was suspended for supporting the rejection option in the plebiscite on September 4.
